SyncTime 4+
File sync and backup
Nicolas Kick
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- $9.99
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Description
SyncTime is the easy-to-use and flexible solution to synchronize your files. Keep all your backup copies up to date with the click of a button, with automated schedules, from the Shortcuts app or even via AppleScript.
* To find out if SyncTime is the right solution for you, you can download and use SyncTime Lite for free. The only limitation of SyncTime Lite is that it discards any previous sync settings when closing and opening the app again. *
You can create as many sync items as you need and customize each one individually. In the standard configuration, a sync item consists of two directories: a source and a destination. You can choose any directory reachable in the Finder: it can be located on your Mac, on an external drive, or on a remote server.
Among the possible options you will find:
• select several sources and destinations: all the sources will be virtually merged and copied to every destination
• overwrite policy: overwrite only if the source file is newer than the destination file, overwrite if the source file has a different timestamp or size, always overwrite or never overwrite
• sync type: one-way sync (copy source to destination), two-way sync (merge source and destination) and one-way move (delete the source files after a successful copy to the destination)
• remove files that don’t exist on the source anymore
• add file filters with names or tags containing specific words or matching a regular expression, or modification dates or sizes in a specific range. Matching files can be excluded or included
• track moved and renamed files
• background syncing: files on your Mac are monitored for changes in real time
• start to sync automatically whenever source and destination become available or set up a custom sync schedule
• dependencies: a sync item will first trigger all its dependencies (if any) and run automatically when they are completed
• backup strategy: files to be overwritten or removed can be moved to the trash, or to a custom directory, or a full, incremental copy of the destination can be made, linking unchanged files.
• skip the confirmation dialog once you're confident that the sync behaves correctly
• install AppleScripts (or create your own) to be executed when a specific sync has completed or after all syncs have completed. By default you can install scripts that shut down your Mac, send an email with the sync results, and more
If you have any requests, suggestions or bug reports, please visit the website by clicking the Support button.
What’s New
Version 4.11
• Added 7 new languages: Arabic, Dutch, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Swedish and Turkish.
• Added a new backup timeframe option to gradually remove old backups: Decimate old files, which keeps all backups for the last 24 hours, one backup for each day for the last 5 weeks, and one backup for each week before.
• Incremental backups can now be browsed through a new interface that allows jumping back and forth between backup dates inside the selected directory. It can be opened via the “Browse Backups” item in the File or contextual menu.
• Added new filters for matching hidden and locked files and aliases (symbolic links). The hidden files filter replaces the option “Exclude hidden files”.
• Added a file modifier for removing extended file attributes.
• Removed backups are now logged as well.
• The “Once all syncs are completed” option can now be set via AppleScript.
• There is no more a separate option to hide the confirmation dialog for moved/renamed files. The other option “Skip confirmation dialog” is now applied to moved files as well.
• Fixed an issue that caused errors that were automatically removed after they reached the maximum log age to remain unresolved.
Ratings and Reviews
Does exactly what i need, nothing more, nothing less. However...
like i said, it does exactly what i need. i want to love it but a crippling issue as arisen and that issue seems to be a memory leak. i have it set to start at login and my imac only goes to sleep, never logging out as i’m the only user. i leave the sync window open to monitor the progress. after a few days and sync routines, activity monitor shows the memory allocated to it has ballooned. on startup it consumes about 85MB with my syncs configured. after 3 days, the memory allocated had ballooned to over 20 GIGABYTES. it seems it holds all of the files it transfers but never lets them go after the transfer is complete? i only noticed this when i woke up my iMac from sleep this morning and it was acting sluggish despite only being 2 weeks old with a fresh install of High Sierra.
i’ll keep a closer eye on it over the next week and update the progress. if the problem persists, i’ll escalate it to the dev. if it doesn’t, i’ll edit this out of my review and adjust it accordingly.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your report. If you are still experiencing this issue, please consider visiting the website to get in touch. Thank you for your time.
Excellent Little Tool!
SyncTime is an excellent little tool, and is my go-to tool for maintaining my website, keeping it backed up, etc.
The UI is clean and intuitive and easy to use. Additionally, the developer is easily accessible and quick to respond to questions, comments, feature requests, and the like. Also, for those out there concerned with accessibility, if he's able, he'll resolve whatever issue you have. I'm a VoiceOver user and have pointed out accessibility issues, and he's been more than happy to work with me, and has ultimately gotten the issues resolved.
I'd highly recommend SyncTime to anyone interested in a nifty little tool to perform your sync and backup tasks!
App Shows Identical Files Already Present in Target Folder
I am a scientist and download many PDFs per day to my hard drive. I like sharing these with my colleagues via Dropbox so I downloaded SyncTime to ensure that the files in Source A are always going to be able to be synced with Destination in Dropbox appropriate folder. In my first check to see if SyncTime is accurate it found 320 files to add to the Destination. Yet, opening up my Path Finder Dual window, I see that all the files in the Source and Destination were all there (already) and no need to sync. Files were identical in number, filename, and date last opened. I noted the same “issue” for other recommendations to sync with other folders. SyncTime is not showing me what file is missing in the Destination folder. I do see 3 out of 11 files in the Source that are newer, so those would be appropriate for SyncTime to change in the destination folder, but not the remaining 8 files which are identical in name and date.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your report. Are you still experiencing this issue? SyncTime compares files not by date opened, but by date modified, which usually indicates if a file has been changed. Of course it should also show which new files should be added. Please consider visiting the website to get in touch. Thank you for your time.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Nicolas Kick
- Size
- 7.3 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Desairem
- Price
- $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.